Karcag
Town in Northern Great Plain, Hungary
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Karcag (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈkɒrt͡sɒg]) is a large town in Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok county, in the Northern Great Plain region of central Hungary.
Karcag | |
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 City Hall in Karcag | |
 Flag  Coat of arms | |
  Karcag Location of Karcag | |
| Coordinates: 47°18′40″N 20°54′58″E | |
| Country | Hungary |
| Region | Northern Great Plain |
| County | Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok |
| District | Karcag |
| Area | |
• Total | 368.63 km2 (142.33 sq mi) |
| Population (2018) | |
• Total | 19,732 |
| • Density | 61.25/km2 (158.6/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 5300 |
| Area code | (+36) 59 |
| Website | karcag |
Geography
Karcag covers an area of 368.63 km2 (142 sq mi) and has a population of 20,632 people (2011).
Transport
Karcag has its own railway station.
| Significant minority groups | |
| Nationality | Population (2011) |
|---|---|
| German | 48 |
| Romanian | 20 |
| Russian | 8 |
| Slovakian | 8 |
| Serbian | 6 |
Politics
The current mayor of Karcag is László Dobos (Fidesz-KDNP).
The local Municipal Assembly, elected at the 2019 local government elections, is made up of 12 members (1 Mayor, 8 Individual constituencies MEPs and 3 Compensation List MEPs) divided into this political parties and alliances:[1]
| Party | Seats | Current Municipal Assembly | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fidesz-KDNP | 9 | M | |||||||||
| Jobbik | 2 | ||||||||||
| Momentum Movement | 1 | ||||||||||
Twin towns – sister cities
Karcag is twinned with:
- Cristuru Secuiesc, Romania (1990)
- Kunszentmiklós, Hungary (2009)
- Lazdijai, Lithuania (2004)
- Lednice, Czech Republic (2006)
- Merki District, Kazakhstan (1998)
- Moldava nad Bodvou, Slovakia (1998)
- Schwarzheide, Germany (2004)
- Stara Moravica (Bačka Topola), Serbia (1994)
Notable people
- István Varró (died in 1770), the last speaker of the Cuman language
- Colonel Michael de Kovats (1724–1779), the father of the US cavalry, a Hungarian hussar was born in Karcag
- Gyula (Julius) Németh (1890–1976), Hungarian Turkologist, linguist
- Avram Hershko (born 1937), Israeli biochemist and Nobel laureate in Chemistry
- Margit Sebők (1939–2000), painter and educator
- Kevin Varga (born 1996), footballer
- Mihály Varga (born 1965), politician, since 2013 Minister of National Economy
- Suzi Diamond, Holocaust survivor.[2]
